Holly Woodlawn

Born: 1946-10-26

Holly Woodlawn was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in his movies Trash and Women in Revolt. She was probably best known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit pop song "Walk on the Wild Side".


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I Am Divine

as Self
Released: 2013-03-09

Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero....

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Trash

as Holly Sandiago
Released: 1970-10-05

The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic...

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Twin Falls Idaho

as Flamboyant at Party
Released: 1999-07-30

Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel....

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Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

as Eve Harrington / Rhett Butler
Released: 1972-03-16

An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.

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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

as Holly
Released: 1998-07-24

Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie...

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Resident Alien

as Performer / Actor
Released: 1990-09-14

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an...

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Beautiful Darling

as Self
Released: 2010-04-02

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known...

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Women in Revolt

as Holly
Released: 1971-12-01

Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a...

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Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

as Self
Released: 2015-05-30

Seed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist....

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Tally Brown, New York

as uncredited
Released: 1979-05-04

Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von...

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The Cockettes

as Self
Released: 2002-01-16

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture...

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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

as Self
Released: 1990-07-18

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks...

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Night Owl

as Barfly
Released: 1993-06-30

A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and...

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This Is America

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1977-05-01

Inspired by shock-documentaries like Mondo Cane, this film looks at the wilder side of life in...

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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

as Self
Released: 2004-05-05

Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical...

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Dust

as Rita
Released: 2012-12-29

DUST is the story of an eccentric family in crisis. Unable to move forward or functionally...

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Underground and Emigrants

as Self
Released: 1976-10-25

In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters...

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

as Self
Released: 2007-04-11

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker...

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Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-07-21

Anjelica Huston narrates this exploration of the spectacularly dreamlike world of Salvador...

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The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival

as Self
Released: 1972-08-25

A stimulating, hilarious, provocative collection of the best American films dealing with...

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Nelson Sullivan

as uncredited
Released: 1989-07-03

Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the...

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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia

as uncredited
Released: 2023-09-28

Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular...

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Bubblegum

as uncredited
Released: 1996-08-19

A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.

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Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia

as uncredited
Released: 2005-01-01

A documentary about queer realities and cultural amnesia.

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Andy Warhol

as Self
Released: 1972-01-02

With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this...

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The Sound Of Muzak

as Maria
Released: 1986-04-21

Holly Woodlawn stars along with underground personalities of downtown New York in this...

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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

as uncredited
Released: 2008-01-01

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and...

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Broken Goddess

as Herself
Released: 1973-10-26

Holly Woodlawn is an aimless, lovelorn beauty in this seventies silent short.

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Holly Woodlawn

as Self
Released:

Holly Woodlawn interview, 1973.

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Beverly Hills Hustlers

as uncredited
Released: 1996-01-01

BIG Video does it again with a release that will give you everything you want in a hardcore...

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Take Off

as Lounge Singer ("1940's")
Released: 1978-01-01

A Don Juan-like playboy doesn't get old, but a stag film of his does in this hardcore riff on...

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The Matinee Idol

as Party Guest
Released: 1995-01-01

A Hollywood movie star (played by Ken Ryker) desperately tries to hide the truth about his...

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Transparent

as Vivian
First aired: 2014-09-26

An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic...

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